Last year, Illinois became the first state in the United States to ban the sale and manufacture of personal care products containing microbeads, which was introduced through Illinois legislation bill SB2727. The law aims to prohibit the manufacture of such products by the end of 2018 and the sale of products by the end of 2019.

In recent weeks, a number of state legislatures in the United States have targeted and even outlawed microbeads.

New Jersey recently signed a microbead ban into law. On Monday, Governer Chris Christie signed legislation that bans the manufacturing and sale of plastic microbeads in cosmetic products in the state. The law calls for a ban on the manufacturing of microbeads by January 1, 2018, prohibits the sale and promotion of items with microbeads by January 1, 2019, and prohibits the sale of drugs containing plastic microbeads by January 1, 2020.